After a major push on social media, organizers have raised enough money that, combined with financial pledges, should be enough to finally pay for construction of a monument honoring civil and women’s rights icon Ida B. Wells-Barnett, officials said.

More than 900 people donated to the effort to build a monument on the South Side acknowledging Wells-Barnett on her birthday on Monday, said Michelle Duster, the great granddaughter of Wells-Barnett and co-chair of the Commemorative Art Committee. Those cash donations will cover most of the costs for the granite and bronze monument, which would be designed and built by sculptor Richard Hunt and installed near Wells-Barnett’s former Bronzeville home. Three organizations agreed to raise the final 16 percent of the $300,000 budget to get the monument built, Duster said.

“There has been such an outpouring of support from the public,” Duster said. “I knew people appreciated her, but I didn't know that the support for this project, which will only be in Chicago, would come from all over the country.

For more than a decade, Duster and a group of volunteers have been working to pay for a monument that would properly acknowledge and celebrate Wells-Barnett’s legacy.

Wells-Barnett was a journalist, activist and community builder who crusaded against the lynching of black men, pushed for women’s right to vote and started numerous organizations to help African-Americans gain economic and political power in Chicago and across the country. Her name was long attached to a public housing complex that was demolished.

But new interest in Wells-Barnett’s groundbreaking work and achievements revived the fundraising effort. Organizer, author and educator Mariame Kaba and MacArthur “genius grant” winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones both hosted fundraisers, and used Twitter to compel hundreds of people to donate to the cause.

On Tuesday morning, they announced they reached their funding goal.

Work on the monument will begin in the fall and the goal is to install it before the end of 2019, Duster said.